Animation

Chris Pallant is senior lecturer in film and digital media at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is the author of Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation (2011), has published in numerous journals, such as Film International, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film. Pallant also co-organizes the UK animation festival, Canterbury Anifest, www.canterburyanifest.com.

• Volume 1: DEFINITION and FORMIntroductionGeorge Sifianos “The Definition of Animation: A Letter from Norman McLaren” in Animation Journal (4.1) 1995 (Spring): 62-66 Paul Ward “Some Thoughts on Theory-Practice Relationships in Animation Studies” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1(2) 2006: 229 - 245Alan Cholodenko “(The) Death (of) the Animator, or: The Felicity of the Felix” in Animation Studies Online Journal 2: 2007Andrew Darley “Bones of Contention: Thoughts on the Study of Animation” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2(1), 2007: 63-76Alan Cholodenko “Animation (Theory) as Poematic: A Reply to the Cognitivists” in Animation Studies Online Journal 4: 2009Donald Crafton “The Veiled Genealogies of Animation and Cinema” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(2), 2011: 93-110Brian Wells “Frame of Reference: Toward A Definition of Animation” in Animation, Practice, Process & Production 1(1), 2011: 11-32Omar O.L. Martinez “Criteria for Defining Animation: A Revision of the Definition of Animation in the Advent of Digital Moving Images” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10(1), 2015: 42-57Paul Wells “Validating the Animated Film. Toy stories, trade tattoos and Taiwan tigers: Or what’s animation ever done for us?” in Themanummer Animatie, Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis (Journal for Media History), 15(1), 2012: 5-24.Richard J. Leskosky “Phenakistoscope: 19th Century Science Turned to Animation” in Film History 5(2), 1993: 176-189Laurent Mannoni and Ben Brewster “The Phantasmogoria” in Film History 8(4), 1996: 390-415Malcolm Cook “The lightning cartoon: Animation from music hall to cinema” in Early Popular Visual Culture, 11:3, 2013: 237-254Michael Frierson “The Invention of Plasticine and the Use of Clay in Early Motion Pictures” in Film History 5(2), 1993: 142-157Phillippe Gauthier “A Trick Question: Are Early Animated Drawings a Film Genre or a Special Effect?” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(2), 2011: 163-175John Randolph Bray and Earl Hurd “Bray-Hurd: The Key Animation Patents” in Film History, 2(3), 1988: 229-266J.P. Telotte “Ub Iwerk's (Multi)Plain Cinema” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1(1), 2006: 9–24Cyril Lepot “Stop Motion: From Plastic to Plasmatic Cinema” in Animation, Practice, Process & Production 3(1+2), 2013: 133–148Pat Power “Animated Expressions: Expressive Style in 3D Computer Graphic Narrative Animation” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4(2), 2009: 107–129Tony Tarantini “Pictures That Do Not Really Exist” in Animation, Practice, Process & Production 1(2), 2012: 249–271Aylish Wood “Behind the Scenes: A Study of Autodesk Maya” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9(3), 2014: 317–332Alison R. Loader “The Anamorphic Cinema” in Animation, Practice, Process & Production 1(2), 2012: 285–313Lynn Tomlinson “The Dance of the Live and the Animated: Performance Animation by Kathy Rose, Miwa Matreyek and Eva Hall” in Animation, Practice, Process & Production 3(1+2), 2013:17–55Drew Morton “The unfortunates: towards a history and definition of the motion comic” in Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 6(4), 2015: 347-366Volume 2: CONTENTIntroductionGrant Noble “Young Children and Television: Some Selected Hypotheses and Findings” in Screen 11(4-5), 1970: 31-47Amy S. Lu “What Race do They Represent and Does Mine Have Anything to do With It? Perceived Racial Categories of Anime Characters” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4(2), 2009: 169–190Ewan Kirkland “The Politics of Powerpuff: Putting the 'Girl' into 'Girl Power'” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5(1), 2010: 9–24Irene Kotlarz “'The Birth of a Notion': Irene Kotlarz Examines the Representation of Blacks in the Animated Cartoon” in Screen (21)9, 1983: 21-29Alison R. Loader “We're Asian, More Expected of Us: Representation, The Model Minority and Whiteness on King of the Hill” in Animation Studies Online Journal 5, 2010: 16-25Van Norris “Taking an Appropriate Line: Exploring Representations of Disability within British Mainstream Animation” in Animation Studies Online Journal 3, 2008: 67-76Seth Giddings “The circle of life: Nature and Representation in Disney's The Lion King” in Third Text, 49, 1999-2000: 83-92Hye Jean Chung “The reanimation of the digital (un)dead, or how to regenerate bodies in digital cinema” in Visual Studies, 30:1, 2015: 54-67Gunnar Strøm “The Animated Documentary” in Animation Journal (11) 2003: 46-63Annabelle Honess Roe “Uncanny Indexes: Rotoshopped Interviews as Documentary” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7(1), 2012: 25–37Omar Landesman and Roy Bendor “Animated Recollection and Spectorial Experience in Waltz with Bashir” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(3), 2011: 353-370Victoria Grace Walden “Animation: Textural Difference and the Materiality of Holocaust Memory” in Animation Studies Online Journal 9, 2014: 1-15Cristina Formenti “The sincerest form of docudrama: re-framing the animated documentary” in Studies in Documentary Film, 8.2, 2014: 103–115Warren Buckland “'Between Science Fact and Science Fiction: Spielberg's Digital Dinosaurs, Possible Worlds, and the New Aesthetic Realism” in Screen (40)2, 1999: 177-192Matthew Butler and Lucie Joschko “Final Fantasy and the Incredibles: Ultra-realistic Animation, Aesthetic Engagement and the Uncanny Valley” in Animation Studies Online Journal 2, 2007: 55-63Christian McCrea “Explosive, Expulsive, Extraordinary: The Dimension Excess of Animated Bodies” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3(1), 2008: 9-24Rayna Denison “Star-Spangled Ghibli: Star Voices in the American Versions of Hayao Miyazaki's Films” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3(2), 2008: 129-146Caroline Ruddell “From the Cinematic to the 'Anime-ic': Issues of Movement in Anime” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3(2), 2008: 113-128Yang Feng and Jiwoo Park “Bad Seed or Good Seed? A Content Analysis of the Main Antagonists in Walt Disney- and Studio Ghibli-Animated Films” in Journal of Children and Media, 9.3, 2015: 368–385Chuck Jones “The Roadrunner and Other Characters” in Cinema Journal, 8.2 (Spring, 1969): 10-16Gunnar Strøm “The Two Golden Ages of Animated Music Video” in Animation Studies Online Journal 2, 2007: 56-67Pat Kirkham “Vertigo (title sequence), Alfred Hitchcock (1958)” in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum 1:2, 2015: 218-222Volume 3: CONTEXTIntroductionPaula Callus “Reading Animation through the Eyes of Anthropology: A Case Study of Sub-Saharan African Animation” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7(2), 2012: 113-130Laura U. Marks “Taking a Line for a Walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to Vector Graphics” in Third Text, 23(3), 2009: 229-240Chris Pallant “Disney-Formalism: Rethinking 'Classic Disney'” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5(3), 2010: 341–352J.P. Telotte “Ub Iwerk's (Multi)Plain Cinema” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1(1), 2006: 9-24Harvey Deneroff “We Can't Get Much Spinach! The Organisation and Implementation of the Fleischer Animation Strike” in Film History 1 (1), 1987: 1-14Donald Crafton “The View from Termite Terrace: Caricature and Parody in Warner Bros Animation” in Film History, 5(2), 1993: 204-230Karl Cohen “Toontown's Reds: HUAC's Investigation of Alleged Communists in the Animation Industry” in Film History, 5(2) 1993: 190-203Mark Langer “Animatophilia, Cultural Production and Corporate Interests: The Case of Ren & Stimpy” in Film History, 5(2) 1993: 125-141Matt Stahl “Cultural Labor’s “Democratic Deficits”: Employment, Autonomy and Alienation in US Film Animation” in Journal for Cultural Research, 14(3), 2010: 271-293Lynne Perras “Steadier, Happier and Quicker at the Work?: Women in Canadian Animation” in Animation Studies Online Journal 3, 2008: 18-23DanTorres and Lienors Torre “Recording Australian Animation History: Critical Significance of Historical Research” in Animation Studies Online Journal 2, 2007: 115-124Paul Ward in “British Animated Propaganda Cartoons of the First World War Issues of Topicality” in Animation Journal 2003: 65-83Lucie Joschko and Michael Morgan “Learning from the Golden Age of Czechoslovak Animation: The Past as the Key to Unlocking Contemporary Issues” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3(1), 2008: 66-84Pierre Floquet “What is (Not) so French in Les Triplettes de Belleville” in Animation Studies Online Journal 1, 2006: 2-13Mette Peters “Murder in Raamsdonk Silhouette Film and Shadow Shows from the Netherlands” in Animation Journal (7.1) 1998: 6-15Hannes Rall “Tradigital Mythmaking: New Asian Design Ideas for Animation” in Animation Studies Online Journal 6, 2011: 14-25Weihua Wu “In Memory of Meishu Film: Chatachresis and Metaphor in Theorizing Chinese Animation” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4(1), 2009: 31-54Mary Ann Farquhar “Monks and Monkey A Study of National Style in Chinese Animation” in Animation Journal (2.1) 1993 (Spring): 4-27Jian Cui “The Pursuit of a National Style of Chinese Animation” in Animation Journal 14, 2006: 44-61Sheuo Hui Gan “To be or Not to be: The Controversy in Japan over the Anime Label” in Animation Studies Online Journal 4: 2009: 35-43Xavier Minguez-Lopez “Folktales and Other References in Toriyama's Dragon Ball” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9(1), 2014: 27-46 332Joon-Yang Kim “Critique of the New Historical Landscape of South Korean Animation” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1(1), 2006: 61-81Zhi-Ming Su “Reaching Out to Touch: Animation and Aboriginal Children in Taiwan” in Animation Studies Online Journal 2: 2007: 110-114Volume 4: KEY INDIVIDUALSIntroductionPierre Floquet "Tex Avery's Comic Language: A Transgressive Interpretation of Hunting" in Animation Journal (6.2) 1997: 22-41William Moritz “Jordan Belson: Last of the Great Masters" in Animation Journal (8.1) 1999: 4-17Vanessa Chang “Animating the City: Street Art, Blu and the Poetics of Visual Encounter” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8(3), 2013: 215-233Cordelia Brown “Flowerpot Men: The Haptic Image in Brian Cosgrove and Richard Hall's Animations” in Animation Studies Online Journal 2: 2007: 64-74Robin Allan “Walt Disney and Europe” in Visual Resources, 14(3), 1999: 275-295John Canemaker “Elfriede! On the Road with Mrs. Oskar Fischinger” in Funnyworld, 1978Tom Klein "La Verne Harding: Hollywood's First Woman Animator" in Animation Journal (3.1) 1994 (Spring): 54-67.Robin Allan "Sylvia Holland: Disney Artist" in Animation Journal (3.1) 1994 (Spring): 32-41.Howard Rieder “Memories of Mr. Magoo” in Cinema Journal, 8(2), 1969: 17-24Sandra Law “Putting Themselves in the Pictures Images of Women in the Work of Selected Female Animators in the UK” Kevin O'Brien “Chuck Jones and MGM: Reevaluating Tom and Jerry” in Animation Journal (5.2) 1996: 80-84Jennifer Blair “Animation to Spare in Chris Landreth's and Ryan Larkin's Short Films” in Screen (48)4, 2007: 46-63J.P. Telotte “Winsor McCay's Warped Spaces” in Screen (48)4, 2007: 463-473Nichola Dobson “Dancing to rhythm of the music – Norman McLaren, the body and performance” in Animation Studies Online Journal 10, 2015: 1-9Kevin M. Moist and Michael “Bartholow “When Pigs Fly: Anime, Auterism and Miyazaki's Porco Rosso” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2(1), 2007: 27-42Esther Leslie “Loops and joins: Muybridge and the optics of animation” in Early Popular Visual Culture, 11(1), 2013: 28-40Musa Brooker “Floyd Norman's Story: The Untold Tale of a True Animation Legend” in Animation Journal (?.?) 2008: 4-45.Suzanne Buchan “The Quay brothers: Choreographed Chiaroscuro, Enigmatic and Sublime” in Film Quarterly, 51 (3), 1998 pp. 2-15.William Moritz “Some Critical Perspectives on Lotte Reiniger” in Animation Journal (5.2) 1996: 40-51Glenn Myrent “Emile Reynaud: First Motion Picture Cartoonist” in Film History 3(3), 1989: 191-202Paul Wells “To Sonicity and Beyond! Gary Rydstrom and Quilting the Pixar Sound” in Animation Journal 2009: 23-35Laura Ivins-Hulley “A Universe of Boundaries: Pixelated Performances in Jan Svankmajer's Food” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8(3), 2013: 267-282Maureen Furniss “John Whitney's Path to IBM” in Animation Journal 2013: 26-46Index